Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness - Rilegato

Harrington, Anne

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ISBN 10: 0393071227 ISBN 13: 9780393071221

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2019

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Mind FixersThe Cure WithinBut when the Freudians overreached, they drove psychiatry into a state of crisis that a new “biological revolution” was meant to alleviate. Harrington shows how little that biological revolution had to do with breakthroughs in science, and why the field has fallen into a state of crisis in our own time.Mind FixersIn focusing particularly on the search for the biological roots of schizophrenia, depression, and bipolar disorder, Harrington underscores the high human stakes for the millions of people who have sought medical answers for their mental suffering. This is not just a story about doctors and scientists, but about countless ordinary people and their loved ones.Mind Fixers

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Anne Harrington has written a lucid and compelling analysis of the travails of psychiatry as it has attempted to ground its understanding of mental illness in biology. She confronts the gaps between its aspirations and reality with fairness and even sympathy.--Steven E. Hyman, director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research

A must-read that will interest general readers and medical professionals alike.

A measured, insightful survey of the limits of contemporary treatment for mental illness.

A fascinating and wide-ranging unpacking of the field.

Anyone interested in mental health care's history and future will appreciate this informative and rewarding survey.

The story Harrington tells is one of push-and-pull, back-and-forth...Intricate and winding, though her prose remains clear and crisp.--Jennifer Szalai

A tale of promising roads that turned out to be dead ends, of treatments that seemed miraculous in their day but barbaric in retrospect, of public-health policies that were born in hope but destined for disaster...Of value to historians of medicine. --Gary Greenberg

The shortcomings of current ideas in the causes and treatments of mental disease are clearly documented. [Harrington's] insights into the social aspects of treatment deserve to be addressed. --Donald F. Calbreath

Masterful...Harrington's grasp of this story and the clarity with which, with limited moralism, she delivers a tale about the 'big picture' of psychiatry and neurology is emblematic of the historian's craft. --Stephen T. Casper

L'autore:

Anne Harrington is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science and faculty dean of Pforzheimer House at Harvard University. She is the author of four books, including Mind Fixers and The Cure Within. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0393071227
• ISBN 13: 9780393071221
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 366